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Previously on Heel.

I'm sorry.

It's all good.

There's a chance for this gimmick to really, really speak to people about the

redemption, deliverance from evil.

You help me restore my honor in the ring with a cross promotion between the DWL

and Dystopia, or I hit you back and take every goddamn dollar you make for the

rest of your life.

I like having you here working with me. It's our family business.

With the cross promotion thing, it's probably going to get a little crazy

Willie's underwater already.

She's a goggler.

I passed out on the floor and you left me down here all night?

I'll tell Robin you're sleeping in.

$467 ,000 I have loaned you to date.

Don't tell Carol or my boys.

Tom and I made an agreement years ago that we would do whatever we need to do

keep this place alive.

And you don't need to worry about what those things are. Are they legal?

Some are. You see, you need to make it right.

Make it right, Stacey.

Take it all.

I want Crystal to defect to dystopia. And I want you to be her front of house

manager. Think about what you want, Willie, for yourself.

You don't actually think I should do it, do you? I think we need to stop letting

other people make our decisions for us.

So, we buy a wrestling promotion.

Build it. Brand it.

Maybe in one to three years it grows.

This Brooks Rizzo fellow seems to be real sweet on me.

You sure you're the only one he's sweet on? Our streaming platform, Continuum,

is looking to add a sporting element to our programming portfolio. And

professional wrestling is very big business.

Brooks Rizzo is clearly looking to be impressed, and we have the opportunity

impress him by showing him that what we do here is special.

The answer.

I will walk in the shore.

Find you to find.

The peace that you're in love.

Where you come.

So what do you want to do exactly?

I just want to be useful.

When can you start?

Yesterday.

How about tomorrow morning?

You won't be disappointed.

Okay, good deal.

I need a story.

My application, I need a story.

Everybody needs a big thing you overcame or heroic thing you did, saving someone

from a tree.

I don't know how you save someone from a tree, but what's this for?

College application.

Oh, so you need some bullshit stories.

It's not bullshit.

They want a story.

You need an angle. You need a sales presentation for who you are so you can

them and sell them some bullshit so they allow you to spend $60 ,000 to sit

through their stupid, useless classes where you'll learn stupid, useless shit

that you'll never use in real life.

How about the story is, this is bullshit. Which school is this for?

University of Michigan.

You can get in there.

It might reach school.

You don't need a story, Robin. You don't even need to go to college.

Rah -rah, dorms, go -team, roofied, and date -raped in a fraternity basement.

Get a job, work hard, end of story. I didn't go to college.

What's in your cup, Mom?

Go to your room. She's got her SAT tutoring.

You go anyway.

Robin, get in the car.

Willie.

I can't. I don't care. What you just did was unacceptable.

You want your daughter to be just like you?

Angry and reactive?

Mission accomplished.

You don't want to be here, do you?

What's that supposed to mean? You're uncomfortable in this house.

Something about it all just makes you nervous. Well, then I've been nervous

quite a long time.

You didn't used to be. This house used to be your refuge.

I used to be your refuge, but now it seems like I'm a cage.

This house is a cage.

You think I don't see it?

Why you stay late at the DWL every night?

It's your natural habitat there. You feel free. You can spit, snarl, and lash

out to whoever you want.

You know that won't fly here.

Different rules in this house, but you don't want to learn them. You don't want

to change.

Nothing is enough to make you change. I know I'm not enough.

I know your own daughter isn't enough.

I'm three things, Willie.

I'm hardworking and I'm honest and I've dedicated my life to helping you, giving

you slack, covering for you, making excuses when you didn't come to open

at school or gymnastics meet or a science fair.

My God, Willie, were you even here when I ran up and down the driveway holding

the hood of Robin's sweatshirt while she was learning to ride a bike?

Just the edge of her hood so she would know I was there.

I don't know where you were, Willie.

I just know I'm tired.

I am so, so tired.

You know, my friend has a Kiss cover band. Maybe we could do a second show

the lights are still up. Yeah? There's a bunch of Gully merch in those boxes.

That's what's in the boxes? Yep. Are they T -shirts and hats? Uh -huh. Like,

what's in there?

That basement is a mess down there. There's a rusty file cabinet, an old fax

machine, a million boxes of papers, and God knows what else. Have you been down

there lately?

Never been down there.

Hey, Fire Chief is here.

I think we need to organize these.

Tim, we get this silly cross -motion done with first, and then I'll go down

the basement with you. We'll get it all organized, okay?

Okay. You want to meet the fire chief?

Yeah. Go on.

All right, well, you finish up with that, meet us out front. We'll go home

lunch.

What can I do for you, Charlie? You finish the script yet, Jack? You better

hurry up. How do you like that lighting ring I sent up there? It's going to

crush. The dome will never look better.

I got to send a couple of my camera guys up there to scout the place for my live

stream. Okay, let Willie know when.

You sound non -flush.

I'll be plus when we sign a legal document affirming that we no longer

work together again.

Well, then your happiness is in your control. Just book a great final card

Rooster gets over and I come off looking great.

Can't guarantee you look great. Oh, please, I destroyed that stuff you wrote

with me and Crystal. I destroyed it. Yeah, you did that in front of your

Let's see how you do up in Duffy. You don't worry about me. I was born for

And you...

You're the guy who has to come up with something compelling.

Well, I hope you can deliver.

Just get me your super secret, super complex script so I can give you notes

learn your precious dialogue.

Lord have mercy, Jack. You're the only booker in the history of wrestling who

thinks he's writing drama.

Okay, get it done.

Wrestlers don't win Tony Awards.

You want to win a Tony Award? You write yourself a musical about a rapping

wrestler with the fucking guy who wrote Hamilton. You know what, Charlie? That's

a great idea.

No, it's not a good idea, Jack. And you know what?

You... Or not the guy who's going to change the face of wrestling with your

writing? Fuck you.

Really, Jack?

After we've come this far, you're going to crack open a can of fuck you?

Fuck you,

Charlie. I'm fucking ready for any can of fucking fuck you you want to crack

open. I fucking love fuck you. I'm standing in front of a fucking house

powered by fuck you. So fuck you, buddy.

You fucking want to crack open another fucking can of fuck you? Fucking drive

down here, you motherfucker.

Fuck you. I've fucking done so right by you. You can't say fuck you to me. I'll

fucking show up to your fucking house with a fucking oil tanker full of fuck

you. So fuck you, Jack.

Fuck!

dystopia charlie gully he runs it obviously he's out of his mind but a

online following packs the house every week sells out merch cash cash just has

no idea to upscale it past his own little ego then we've got the dwl that's

duffy wrestling league it's old style family run for generations historic

huge back catalog of matches all these guys who came through later went on to

big A guy named Jack Spade runs it with his brother. And there's this one woman,

you're gonna love her. Her name is Crystal Tyler.

She's got... She's got zing.

You can tell the board that we're about to become the next WWE.

Don't tell me what to do.

Sorry, I just got excited.

Set it up for me and prepare these people.

Tell them that they need to sell me on why they should be the ones to help

Continuum launch its new wrestling league, corporation, whatever the hell

we're calling it this week.

And be on TV every Saturday night and be so...

fascinating and addictive and delightful that they bring us in 100 ,000 million

new subscribers a day. They need to bring me a pitch that I can then pitch

the board and be given a bonus.

They need to tell me why professional wrestling matters, why it's important.

Give me five -year plan.

Tell me a good story. Make me give a shit.

Okay, tell them that they need to impress me.

Use that word.

Impress, dazzle, stun.

Shit like that.

Okay.

Get out of here.

I gotta do planks.

I need privacy when I do planks.

At least from you.

On page two, we have the inventory for the lighting that you delivered.

Okay.

You're late.

Went on a bike ride early this morning before the baby was up.

I'm into cycling now. You know, it feels good. I've been real stressed lately.

Fuck, I care.

Just explaining why I was 15 minutes late.

You were also late Monday. Were you out riding bikes then, too?

Cycling helps clear my head.

Wish I had something to fucking clear my head. I'm no good to anyone if I break

down. So you're focusing on clearing your head of the stress that threatens

like it's some otherworldly ghost moaning about how you're no good to

you break down. That's the reason that you were late?

Do you consider that professional conduct?

I don't know what you mean.

I mean, you steal in other people's time. I mean, you're spending my time

the highway on a bike like a fucking idiot.

You've been here for a while, Jim.

I have. I've been here a lot longer.

And I put a lot into this place.

But clearly my work ethic hasn't exactly leeched into the culture because all

I've seen here is that y 'all think this is some two -bit casual -ass

organization to which you can be 15 minutes late because you're out riding

fucking big wheel.

You find a way to up the dopamine and the fucking serotonin on your own time.

Not mine.

And don't be fucking late.

Take your seats. We're going to refine our promo cutting skills so we all shine

and promote this last card with dystopia. Morning, Miles.

Miles, what the hell was that?

What? Bobby said hello to you.

Categorize your return salutation.

I said hey back?

Bobby, did you hear the word hey slip out of Miles' mouth?

No, I said... You said nothing.

You did this.

Not okay, I hate the chin. You know who the chin guy is? The chin guy's lazy,

self -absorbed. The chin guy can't even crack open his lips and say, Hello, Joe.

His name's Bobby.

I know that, but how would I know if you knew that? You certainly didn't remind

us what his name was.

Well, I think Bobby realized... There's many things I despise.

One thing I despise to my core... is when I say hello to someone and they

muster up anything more effusive than slightly lifting at the tiniest angle a

nod of their chin.

I fucking despise chin guys.

Fuck you, Bill.

Jim? You know what I despise to my core?

Sanctimonious shit preached to me by some guy who thinks I'm stupid.

I love it. Say more.

Am I rocking my baby right now? It appears that you are not.

No, I'm not. I'm here.

Why?

I'm not sure.

Maybe because this is the only thing in my life I feel like that's actually

mine.

Maybe it's because wrestling matters.

Or maybe it doesn't. More!

We're not idiots, all right? We've given our lives to this. But if we don't push

as hard as we can, our time is not worth shit.

We got a big card coming up against a rival promotion who has more fans, more

money, more everything.

It's insurmountable. Wrong direction, buddy. Pivot.

The only thing we have to compete with them is heart.

Relentlessness.

I was late.

I won't be late anymore.

Now you're back. Ride it out, Jim.

You want to be a great wrestler?

You can't do it alone.

So don't be a fucking chin guy. Breathe, brother. The baton is past. Let it

speak.

When you're a chin guy, you're a me guy.

You're a me only think of myself guy.

You're a me too sleepy to say hello guy.

You're a me only got enough energy in my fucking body to be a fucking chin guy.

On this squad, you are only allowed to be a chin guy if you are at a very

crowded and loud party and you see your mate across the room and you want to

acknowledge them. And the only way to do that is to give them an exaggerated

chin nod and the pointing of a finger, almost as if to say, there he is.

that guy. I think the world of my friend, my teammate. When I see Diego, I

say, there he is.

What's Diego say?

How's it hanging, Billy boy? My ding dong is scraping the pavement.

as usual you be careful with that bill always and that's how it works a

vocalized greeting a hell fella well met so hop on the back of this wagon or get

the fuck out because we are going to infuse this culture with purpose

respect and only then will we succeed you got me

Like you.

Jack, it's Brooks Rizzo.

Hey, Brooks, what's good?

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh.

I understand.

Yes, sir.

I understand.

Okay, then. I got you.

Thank you, Brooks.

He said his boss wants to come up to the DWL and meet her.

She's interested in what we do, but she has questions.

And depending on our answers, they may want to put us on the platform.

Jack, that's amazing.

It could be.

How could it not be?

Because I got 36 hours to impress someone that I don't know who's got

but I don't know what. And he said that. Four different times. You've got to

impress her. Jack, you impressed someone by just walking into a room. You

impressed Brooks and you weren't even trying to do so.

You booked all that stuff for Gully. Everything that everyone was saying and

doing at Dystopia. You've turned Crystal into a star.

And you embraced Ace's ideas even when they appeared fanciful at first.

All your genius is now bringing attention to both promotions.

Heck, Charlie Gully is calling you every second because he is now relying on

you. He's seeing what wrestling can feel like when Jack Spade is involved, and

he wants more.

So you don't have to be or do anything to make an impression. You just have to

remember who you are.

Lawnmower salesman, moonlighting as a wrestler.

And think how good you are at selling lawnmowers.

Now you get to sell something you actually like.

Focus on telling that woman about what you love and why you love it.

Then watch what happens.

Hello.

What's up, stud?

Hey, Jack, hold on one sec.

Hey, buddy, I'm Ace.

We're going to be spending lots of time together.

There you go.

Jack, I'll tell you, sometimes you think a thing's going to feel right or maybe

half right or maybe you don't even know how it's going to feel and then it

happens and you realize, wow.

That was full on. 100 % this feels right. Brother, the condemn is about

people right. You walk into a nursing home and you ask yourself, what is a

What can I be as a man?

Well, this man that you're talking to right now, stress that out.

Those continuum folks, Brooks' boss and I don't know who else, they're coming to

see us tomorrow. They want to be impressed.

I need your help.

I need something better than the car wash thing yet, but I got Armageddon to

book, and it's clogging up my brain. I need you over here.

Okay, I need ideas now.

Yeah, yeah, I'll be there after my shift.

Until then, put your pen in God's hands.

Okay, I'll do that.

I'll see you soon.

All right, later.

What if you guys called me Crystal Deck?

You know, like Crystal Beck? How about Crystal meet my fistle? How about that?

Will and Will!

Hey! Willster!

Ivanka, walk it up.

You guys, I'm fucking shrooms.

Shrooms of life.

Crystal, you got a set?

Yeah.

Tell me.

So, um, just wondering if you've given any more thought to Gully's offer.

Yeah, no way.

It's a weird one for sure. Hard to imagine being around that guy on a

basis. I actually don't mind him. He's great on the mic and...

The venue's huge, but I just prefer it here.

Was it your decision or Bobby's?

Sometimes when you're young, you make decisions based on what other people

You know, it's hard to keep those voices out of your head, and then later you

realize you're your own person all along.

Bobby and I talked about it, but it's just, you know... I'm sorry, but

it's just... I've got to stop you right there, Crystal, because...

Sorry, just.

I mean, you know what it means when a woman uses sorry, just. I mean, sorry,

just don't mind me.

I don't need a lot.

Sorry to speak. Sorry to demand. Sorry to inconvenience you by being alive.

Sorry to be female.

Sorry if I'm offending you by telling you to go shove it up your ass.

Sorry, did I dare take up space? I'm just so sorry.

Don't ever apologize for your existence. And don't use just for what you

deserve. Don't use your own words to disappear or belittle yourself or

for being a woman.

Or alive.

Is this about Gully?

No. Just kind of a pet peeve.

I would never leave the DWL, Lily.

Not when we're about to launch.

This is my home.

Sure. I doubt it.

As long as you don't shortchange yourself.

Stacy, I thought we were going to hold off on all this. It needs to be done.

Well, okay.

Can't it be done another time?

I want everything to be in order. If Continuum wants to buy us, we can't

an accountant there or anything like that. Willie isn't always on the ball.

I think it's important we get a sense of the business your dad ran. The sense

that he shot himself because the pressure got to be too much.

Exactly, yeah.

Stacy, I got a lot going on.

I got a lighting board being installed out there. I got a sound system being

updated. I got a video board that's shooting flames at me over and over and

again. And I got Charlie Gulley constantly calling me.

I need the queen of the DWL to help me focus.

And I don't right now care about boxes.

I'm going to go see how the ship is faring.

Probably needs a lifeboat.

Do me a favor.

Send Gulley to voicemail.

Games, man.

Games, man. Who wants a game?

Hey, you want a game?

All right, go easy on me.

What's your name?

I'm Ace.

I tucked in your blanket today.

Now I'm games, man.

You shit in my chair. That isn't a game.

Sorry, what?

When you tucked my blanket under me.

You put shit in my pants.

No, I did not. I was in Vietnam.

Not even my best friend would have done that kind of a prank. I didn't do that.

Oh, my God.

How's my favorite daughter? Dad, check out this gym I'm going to be able to go

to right on campus.

Whoa. Sick, right?

What's sick is the shape I would have been in had I had that gym.

When I went to college, okay, all I had was the one dumbbell and a broken leg

press, and I just had to rely on jumping jacks. You know what those are? Yeah.

These things right here? Yeah. That's it.

Brooks Rizzo, what's good?

Uh -huh.

Yeah?

Great.

Hey, bring it on, you wild man. I love it.

Looking forward to meeting her.

All right.

Continuum wants to come back down here to get to know us a little bit better.

They're interested?

They're more than interested. The lady boss for Brooks Rizzo is going to come

down here tomorrow night. She wants to talk about investing in us. Oh, my God,

Dad, congratulations.

You worked so hard. You deserve this. Thank you, honey. Okay, listen, I want

to go inside.

I want you to make a playlist that we can crank. We're going to have a party.

want you to tell everyone we're having a party. I want people dancing. I want

them vibing. I want them laughing. I'm on it.

Love you. Love you too.

Trust fall.

I could have caught you.

Fallen objects take on a crazy amount of weight when they fall due to speed and

velocity and stuff.

Well, I handled your weight pretty good last night.

Did I not?

I'm nervous.

Hey, good news is coming.

But I hear you.

Doctors' offices are kind of designed to incite anxiety.

You know, harsh lives.

The exam tables that look like butcher's block.

defibrillators in case of heart attacks, needles.

My mom used to sing my favorite things from The Sound of Music when I got

nervous. I don't know it.

And you're glad I don't, because I can't sing.

Wait.

I know one of your favorite things.

Actually, I know two of them.

Hello.

How are y 'all doing?

Hey, Doc.

I'm a little nervous.

Bobby, there is progress, but it's not the pace of progress that we'd hoped.

While some non -unions can be treated non -surgently, we may need to look at

bone grafts or internal fibrillation, and that means that we would attach

plates and screws...

Worst thing that ever happened to me happened today.

Worst when Dad shot himself?

Second worst.

An old guy threw shit at me.

Into my mouth.

I gagged, swallowed some, horrified.

Giggle if you want to, but the old me would hit the guy. Wham. Today, time

slowed down. Jack, I'm telling you, the Kandam has given me access to some self

-connected Zen awareness that challenges like this are normal. Without

challenges, how would we know we were growing?

Throwing shit's not normal.

Thankfully, it's abnormal.

That's true. What I'm saying is that... Ace, I need your help here. My brain's

on overload.

Okay, it's two trains on two tracks.

One track's headed toward a town called Let's Get Gully to Drop the Lawsuit, and

the other one's barreling towards the city called What the Hell.

What am I supposed to do when a mysterious woman shows up looking to be

impressed? I need to get both trains on the same kind of track.

It's a busy station.

We need to impress this corporate continuum later tomorrow.

I know they're looking at dystopia, because that's where we met Brooks, but

need... To out -Gully Gully.

Except we can't.

Because he has the fireworks and the razor wire and the power techniques and

big arena and the DWL's got a dumpy arena that's fucking breaking down

than we can fix it up. A dumpy arena doesn't mean shit.

Just like shit in your mouth doesn't mean shit.

I mean, it does for a few minutes.

You definitely want to wash it out vigorously.

But you get me?

The DWL.

It's not the place.

It's the people.

I agree, but... I did not know how to make that impression.

I was thinking, what about each of the wrestlers makes them special, you know?

What's everyone's life?

So we sit them down, we ask them each a question that shows us who they are. On

a soul level, kind of.

But then what do I do?

Give me that legal package.

I think I know how we can do this.

At least I'm not going to be able to read that.

All right, people. We are going to shoot a promo.

We got to help each other, carry each other. Let's go, people. Let's go. It's

going to be a group effort.

This is higher than it looks.

I got you, brother.

Let's get this done quick and just don't look down.

I'm looking up.

All I see is up. That's the problem. Everywhere I turn, it's just sky. It's

normal.

You good?

No, I'm not good.

Let's shoot this before I puke.

Look out below!

When's the last time I fumigated this place?

I thought I heard something move.

Oh, it's so beautiful.

It looks great, Max.

Am I too shiny? I feel sweaty.

You look perfect.

Tip, you okay?

Yeah, no, I just, you reminded me of my cousin Sarah. She was nice like you.

Okay, okay.

Tell me when.

Where'd you get the bug?

Connie had it in her garage.

You're still dating Dirty Bird?

I'd call what we're doing more intermittent intimacy dictated by her

my body odor.

We ready to do this?

I'll just swing around, come back up toward you, and you say when.

Okay, then.

I've made a lot of mistakes here, Bill.

In this place.

We both did. We were young.

Not young anymore.

Kept making them.

I did, too. Around the globe.

Lost track of what was right and wrong when I was around Tom.

It's easy to get swept up.

I'm not blaming him, but those mistakes are starting to catch up to me now.

Nothing catches up with you, really.

Nothing you can't escape.

I don't think that's going to happen this time.

It's never too late to carve out a new you.

Do you think I should leave here?

And go where?

Somewhere not here.

Okay. You know what you're saying?

Always.

Call action.

Okay, guys, don't

send me all the takes you've ruined. Just your best takes. Yeah, my pal here

doesn't got time to wade through all the crap. All my takes were perfect, right,

Willie? By perfect, you mean rambling.

Yes. We ought to cut this by tomorrow. What time's that?

I'll get you to arrive by 8 p .m. We'll distract her during dinner if you need

to make last -minute edits. And we'll sludge you a plate under the door. Okay,

'all, so the plan is to make the arena look spectacular, host big family -style

meal right here tomorrow. So if y 'all got favorite dishes or ideas, come to me

now. We're going to sort through them. And, hey, not everybody bring desserts.

We want these people leaving with big bellies and full hearts.

Step of legs. Perfect. And I can bring a chicken pot. How do you turn on

airdrop? Oh, I got you.

This is amazing.

Just got better.

Team's going to be blown away.

Yeah, you're right.

It's never looked better.

Certainly never smelled better.

I'm just happy I could finally use the chocolate fountain I bought. I'm going

dunk my entire head in that thing. I hope you all appreciate the twinkly

I used some old Christmas decorations.

Debbie loved this place.

Deeply. I didn't know how much until I started spending more time here.

She made a balloon cave over there.

She's calling an arch, just FYI. Okay. I also called it a cave and I was

corrected. It's so when the continuum lady comes through the doorway, the

thing she sees is the ring.

Look down there, Jack.

Look at what you've given people by bringing new life to this and asking

to share the load.

Purpose.

A place to ply their trade.

Have fun tonight.

Why am I so anxious?

Because you want to be liked. We all do.

And we all will.

Thank you for everything.

You're welcome.

Who wants to see a vampire?

When

do

we need to leave here to make it to Georgia?

40 minutes ago.

That's not helpful.

Can I get you a drink? Sure.

DeAndre Rutherford.

I know exactly who you are, Mr.

Jennifer Lucia.

Oh, well, welcome, Ms. Lucia.

Now, thank you for coming to see us.

I know this whole thing may seem a little crazy, but if I may, allow me to

deconstruct dystopia.

Now, on the surface, it may seem like one thing. Underneath it, there's

something far more profound going on.

Dystopia is very popular.

Tell me why.

People respond to us because we confirm their deepest fears and in that, they're

comfortable. We understand them because we are them.

Now, I see you.

There's no need to pretend here.

The darkness is part of you. I mean, there's the darkness inside of me as

I hear that.

Dystopia is a church. In a fallen world, we preach the gospel of truth. No need

to pretend otherwise.

This is why they show up. Our audience doesn't have to put on a facade of

civility. No fake shiny face.

No, no, no, no, no. Humans are brutal. We all know that.

Now pro -wrestling, at its heart, is about survival and spectacle.

One big human drama writ large.

Now, that's what we're tapping into.

Gully and me, we tell stories of chaos because anything else will be selling a

lie and doesn't honor our audience.

Now, we're all mortal.

Don't we have to accept that? We embrace that.

See, we shot the audience with the bitterness of fear and pain. Joy

That's what we got going on.

Oh, and we, uh...

Set people on fire and throw them in poop.

You guys are phenom, Jen.

I'm telling you, man, you got to get on board now or you're going to be on the

sidelines watching it happen because it will happen. Now, listen, let me tell

you something.

I've been all around in the promotion lane. And what this man has built, of

course, is my talent. All with your talent, Rooster. All with your talent.

It's something that will only grow regret.

All right.

All right. Well.

Got the party, you've got the phenom himself, but I have to ask, where's the

condemned and Crystal Tyler?

The condemned and Crystal will both be at the event next week.

Armageddon divided, we stand.

This sold out, but my cousin can hook you up. Yeah, I can hook you up.

All right, we'll have to make it back for that, and then you can set me on

I'll set you on fire right now.

Cheers,

cheers.

You'll be here in 11 minutes, and y 'all can eat whatever you want then, okay?

Scoot. Shoot, shoot.

I saw Diego cutting your promo.

You look great.

Thank you.

You look great now.

Is that a bathing suit?

It's like a crop top.

Pretty, pretty crop.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean that enough, you know, in a flirty way.

I didn't take it that way.

Bobby told me the doctor gave him some bad news.

Good news is just going to be delayed a bit longer.

My life's going to be about making up for that moment I broke his leg.

I think I was in love with you.

I didn't know what that was, and when I saw you two together at his house, I

just acted out.

He keyed his car. It was insane.

Do you think what we had was real love?

Ace, I think we've all tried to move on from that moment.

You need to.

I appreciate you putting it that way. I just... I just wanted you to know.

Wait, what if one of those tractor -trailer trucks jackknocked on the

interstate? I watched one happen once. It's like it's happening in slow motion,

probably because it's so heavy. I can check ways and see if there's a red

I'm going to grab some rum. There's no problem. A little alcohol can't

lubricate, medicate, or mediate. Give me a scream if she arrives.

Nice what Debbie did with that balloon thing. Lovely what a little ingenuity

do. Did you give Tom money?

It must have been a lot.

You must have been the one who kept it all going. That's the only thing I can

figure.

How much do we owe you?

No one owes me anything.

Willie said Tom might have done some things.

Financially, some that might not have been legal.

She must have been a big part of it.

Willie wasn't a big part of anything.

Tom had his share of problems, sure.

As we all do, he's under a lot of pressure.

He did what he did. I know the details. Whatever it is, it's in the past now.

No need to put it all out there after the fact.

It's not after the fact.

It's the current set of facts in the present.

I'm guessing Tom thought this was all just going to go away when he died.

All the debt and the loose ends.

Maybe he didn't think about it at all, but...

Jack and I started it all up again with no idea.

And there it was, and now we're here.

No one's going to buy the DWL with the amount of debt we have.

We could sell this place three times over and still not pay back what we owe.

Not to mention all the other stuff going on financially.

If I had any money left to give, Stacey, I'd give it.

Mean that.

All I got's my bag of tricks and my elbow grease.

Jack doesn't know about any of it.

I can tell. I don't know what he'll do when he finds out.

I don't know what he'll do.

Jack is nothing like Tom.

I'm not saying your speculation's accurate about me lending Tom money, but

please, please do not tell Jack about this speculation.

I'm just happy to be back here.

Building the DWL with y 'all.

We're not going to Duffy. Just call them and have them email me their

presentation. Charlie, call that condemned guy and have him come down

now and make sure that he wears the outfit and the girl.

Crystal. Okay, well, it's probably past their bedtime, but I'll see what I can

do. Great. Now we're more than just wrestling. Jen, do you want to come see

giraffe? Do you have a giraffe?

This is shaping up to be a doozy of a day.

Soaps, tash, left and right.

Bro, it's so true. Like, how much time and effort can we put into something

to get noticed and approved by someone we don't know and never met?

And yet all your attention and energy has been put into getting that approval

order to feel like you're on the right path.

There's a word for that. Tell us.

Christianity.

Looking great, Tina.

I need Crystal down here right now.

Fuck off.

Hey, I don't like your tone.

I don't like everything about you. You like my panache.

Why are you calling me? I want Crystal down here now.

It's not going to happen.

Hey, Willie, you know what? I know you don't respect me, but you've got to

respect the fact that I know talent and I know what to do with it. And just like

what I've done with Rooster, I want to do the same for Crystal, but also for

you. Jack is never going to let you write anything, just like Tom did.

He is never going to let you be front of house, just like Tom did. Have you

fully internalized this fact?

Stop it.

Stop what?

Nothing. How much do you want?

We're having a party.

Well, I'm having a party, too.

Wow, Willie.

Wow. Wow what?

What do you mean, wow what? Willie, you're not hanging up on me.

So I am hearing you loud and clear.

You want to come work for me.

I don't want to come work for you.

Okay, then hear this. My very good friend, Jennifer Lussier, from Continuum

Communications, is sitting by my floor right now with a mojito in her hand, and

she's asking for Crystal.

Over and over. So I want to ask you a question.

Should I give Jennifer Lucia another mojito?

Because the one in her hand right now is almost empty.

But I also know she's supposed to get up to Duffy and meet y 'all and kick the

tires of the DWL. So you're going to have to help me with this. You're going

have to give me some advice.

Do you think that I should walk over and give Jennifer Lucia another mojito? Or

should I walk over there and remind her of the time? Because if she has any

plans at all to get to Duffy tonight and meet everybody at the DWL.

Well, then she better get on the road right now.

But it's up to you.

What do you think I should do, Willie?

I'm going to go give Jim Lucier another mojito.

Thank you for your advice, Willie.

Okay, that was Jen Luce's assistant on the phone. It's official. She is not

coming. She's going to stay at Charlie Gulley's party. What?

Assistant told me to email the club moment. She'd take a look.

I want to impress her with all this in person. Have her meet the talent she's

going to be investing in face -to -face and just show her the quality of the

people she's going to be banking on.

Email the damn promo.

As it is written in the Gospel of Matthew, whoever does not welcome you

listen to your message as you leave that house or city, shake the dust off your

feet. Our effort is all we can control, not the reception of that effort.

Troops need a speech check.

Yeah, well, I don't... Yeah.

Screen the promo.

We know what we got.

We know who we are.

Celebrate that.

Continuum don't like it? Fuck Continuum.

Continuously.

Come on. Diego, my brother. Press play.

Got you, brother.

People are always asking us to wrestle.

Why does wrestling matter?

Why are your fans so devoted?

What do you do?

What you do.

My mom worked in the leather factory.

Yeah. When she came home, she'd be so tired, she'd just go lay down. I'd

One day, I was watching wrestling, and she started laughing and laughing until

tears were in her eyes.

And I thought, wrestling is making my mom the hardest -working, best woman I

ever met laugh.

I want to do that. I've got to do that. And when I do, it feels like I'm on top

of the world.

On the first wrestling show that I ever saw with my dad, there were people just

like me in the audience. And we're all rooting for the same faces and against

the same heels. And it's like an instant connection. It was like we were a

tribe. It's got its own language and it's got its own rules, but it's the

inclusive club I've ever been a part of.

A lot of the times I go through life trying to make sure the things I'm

aren't felt so much because feelings can hurt you.

But when I'm wrestling, that's when I feel the most alive.

Because for once, I'm not trying to get past the feeling or lose the feeling or

avoid the feeling.

I'm just feeling great.

Wrestling reminds me how strong I am.

When I'm in the ring defending myself, I'm reminding myself it's okay to be me.

It's okay to be strong and fierce and fight back if someone comes after you.

It's okay to kick a guy in the face and do a backflip off the top rope.

If you have a rope handy.

There's nothing more important than wrestling.

Wrestling, when done right, has the same tectonic impact of all the great myths.

The great myths remind us of when we got a sore and when we need to crouch down

in the bunker.

and fight on for happier times.

They teach about humility and belonging, redemption and recovery.

And the balance of the good life comes from paying attention to what's

so you can move forth through your life without strain.

Balanced.

Just like when you ride a bike.

When I come to the dome each week, I know

that on Saturday night, this entire room is going to be...

filled with people who are happy and together having fun and entertained.

And I think we need more of that.

And no one gets hurt. They just pretend to get hurt and then we boo and we clap

and we have a couple beers and then we go home and then we get up and do it

again. But I think when I'm in this

room and I...

I hear the music and the cheering, and it's filled with laughter.

That, to me, it's a little bit like what I think heaven might be like.

With less cleanup afterwards.

D .W .L. is a place of magic and wonder.

It's a place to connect.

A place to find your second lease on life.

Discover your new calling.

The DWL is acceptance

and love.

The DWL is important because family is important.

And that's the feeling you get from our promotion. The family you were born into

plus the family you make on your own.

The DWL is important because in the ring not only do heroes overcome villains.

Heroes can overcome themselves.

Wrestling reminds us that our struggles within ourselves are valid.

They're worth fighting to fix.

An internal fight sometimes between who we are when we walk into the arena and

who we want to be when we walk out. Because to be in the ring means to not

surrender to anything.

To battle for your beliefs.

And to not be perfect heroes, but heroes who know what it's like to be flawed.

Heroes want to overcome their imperfections.

and leave misguided drives and ambitions behind to help others. In the

uncertainty of life, we yearn to find meaning. Why are we here? When we wonder

what's it all for? Can we find solace amidst the insanity?

The world may not owe us nothing, but the people in the world do. And that's

kind of stories we're trying to tell in our little corner of that world.

Stories about how we might live.

When I was a little boy and I saw my dad jump off the top rope and conquer his

foes, I'd imagine being strong enough to do the same thing.

Some of the courage to face what came my way no matter what.

That's what wrestling can do for a person. It can give a person something

striving for.

The strength to be your best.

Even when sometimes you're at your weakest.

But you've got to be willing to make a leap.

Building a business is a leap.

Believing you have something creative worth sharing with others is a leap.

Friendship is a leap.

Loyalty is a leap.

Hope is a leap.

Love is a leap.

Every day the idea that we can make sense out of a chaotic world through

and a tale that brings us together in joy, that's a leap.

A fellowship in the midst of a dark world.

We are you.

Joyful.

Useful.

United.

The Duffy Wrestling League.

It's really well done, little brother. It's really well done.

Thank you, Jack.

And everyone.

Yeah, it didn't matter if she didn't show up. Just answer us up more.

All the more reason to kick ass at the big event.

Tinian won't know what hit him.

More pressure to perform.

I like that.

Yeah. I'm a cold spry. Is that true?

Mostly.

It's a good night tonight, Ace.

Okay? Wouldn't have it any other way. I love this, whether we make the big time

or not.

So fuck the big time.

Fuck the big time.

Let's knock it out of the park. Yeah.

Hey.

Thank you. I got him. I'm headed that way.

Thanks. Sure. That was a great video.

Yeah, it was.

Really is a special group.

Isn't it?

It is.

It's who we are.

It's what we're made of.

It's who we are.

Well, it's official.

Tom's gone sleeping in his clothes. Little dude's passed out like a

I can't remember the last time he stayed up this late.

Didn't talk?

Let your hair down, Mrs. Spade.

That was a great night.

Wasn't the outcome I was expecting, but I'm not going to be despondent about it.

That promo reminded me what makes us special, and I'm damn proud of that.

Ace did a great job.

So did you.

Everybody did.

Debbie's late. Willie.

And it did go.

Your jump was perfect.

Take you to bed right now. Let you jump on me like that. I'd take that, but...

Are you upset that she blew us off?

No. I'm not thinking about you, Lucia.

So something I said.

Something I did.

Come on. Tell me.

I didn't want to talk about it. It was such a beautiful night.

Well, it's over.

Let's talk.

There's a lot of stuff in those boxes.

The ones from the basement.

My dad wasn't always very good with money. There's other stuff.

Stuff with bankruptcies, loans, promissory notes.

Weird stuff.

Like what?

Shady stuff.

Deliberately shady.

Consequential if discovered.

Robbing a county tax assessor is just a tip.

I think your dad did stuff that could make everything that we rebuilt all get

destroyed and I have no idea what to do about it.

I hate them.

Here we are. Once more, I'm to the breach.

Welcome one and all to Duffy, Georgia. Thanks for being my old friend, Bill.

We are streaming live from the Duffy Dome.

Thank you for giving me a family.

Happy Armageddon. I'm sorry it's you out there taking the fall.

Nah, it's perfect.

DWL versus Florida Wrestling Dystopia. Hey, time to gear up.

Go fuck yourself.

You too.

can dance.